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Focused on creating the next frontier of surgery, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), today announced that Ethicon, Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Auris Health, Inc. for approximately $3.4 billion in cash. Additional contingent payments of up to $2.35 billion, in the aggregate, may be payable upon reaching certain predetermined milestones. Auris Health is a privately...

By Rohin Shah and Dmitrii Krasheninnikov
It would be great if we could all have household robots do our chores for us. Chores are tasks that we want done to make our houses cater more to our preferences; they are a way in which we want our house to be different from the way it currently is. However, most “different”...

It's not completely impossible that robots could turn against us, so it's no surprise killer robot movies have been popular for decades. The fear is real. We could be about to add another flick to the canon, as the new trailer for the Child's Play reboot suggests. Plot details haven't been confirmed yet, so it's not totally certain this Chucky is a robot, but there's...

Artificial intelligence is already better than humans at video games, quiz shows and an ancient Chinese board game. Next up, the bots are coming for Jenga. In a newly-published paper, scientists from MIT describe how they taught a robot real-world physics and a practical sense of touch by unleashing it on the tricky tower-building game. Why Jenga? Because unlike purely cognitive games that...

If you took a look at newer Roombas and wondered why that clever mapping couldn't be used to cut your lawn... well, you're not alone. iRobot has unveiled the Terra, a robotic lawn mower that uses the company's mapping tech to trim your grass with minimal fuss. Instead of marking your lawn area with boundary wires as you do with many existing...

SEX ROBOT owners are swapping "used" parts and selling "bruised, battered" dolls on a creepy online forum.
Randy bot-bonkers flog their second-hand dolls to each other – sometimes for thousands of pounds apiece.
The Doll Forum is the go-to destination for owners of so-called "sex dolls",...

Traditionally, robots are either airborne or landlubbers – there's not much crossover. But researchers at Northeastern University have now built a robot that can do both, walking around on two legs before jumping and flying short distances to get over obstacles in its path.
The first clue to how nimble...

Amazon continually invests in new technologies to benefit customers. Amazon has been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices. These devices were created by Amazon, are the size of a small cooler, and roll along sidewalks at a walking pace....

In Greek, the word Sophia means wisdom. Sophia was created to help people in real uses like medicine and education, and to serve AI research. Sophia's very existence provokes public discussion regarding AI ethics and the role humans play in society, especially when human-like robots become ubiquitous. Ultimately, she would like to become a wise, empathetic being and make a positive contribution to humankind and all beings. Hanson Robotics designers dream of that future, wherein AI and humans live and work together in friendship and symbiosis to make the world a better place. Human-AI collaboration: That’s what Sophia is all about.

Hanson Robotics is an AI company dedicated to creating living, conscious machines who improve people's lives.
Founded by David Hanson, Ph.D., the Hanson team has built a worldwide reputation for creating robots that look and act genuinely alive, including renowned robot character Sophia the Robot. Hanson Robotics innovations in AI research and development, robotics...

Logistics giant DHL has showcased some of the new technologies it is developing at its new innovation center in the US. Based in the Chicago area, the center will serve as a gathering point for DHL technology partners and customers to explore new solutions. DHL is expanding its global innovation footprint to the Americas region […]

A self-driving technology startup called Voyage Auto has raised $31 million in Series B funding. The investment round was led by Franklin Templeton, with significant participation from Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures. The latest funding round brings Voyage Auto’s total capital raised to $52 million. Voyage says its mission […]

Nissan has taken the dreaded “putting nerves” out of golf with its latest innovative concept, the ProPilot golf ball. (See video below) The concept is inspired by Nissan’s ProPilot 2.0 driver assistance technology, set to debut on the new Nissan Skyline next month in Japan. Designed for on-ramp to off-ramp (ramp-to-ramp) highway driving, ProPilot 2.0 […]

House built using robots and 3D printing technologies claimed to be a first ETH university in Zurich, in partnership with industrial companies, has built what is claimed to be “the world’s first” inhabited house to be digitally planned and digitally built with the help of robots and 3D printers. (See video below.) Called the “DFAB […]

ROEQ claims to have launched the “world’s most precise docking station for Mobile Industrial Robots”. The new docking station’s ± 1mm repeatability ensures precise delivery of products and pallets carried by the autonomous mobile robots from Mobile Industrial Robots equipped with ROEQ’s cart solution. The company unveiled its new product at Pack Expo, which is […]

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